You finished the work. They stopped paying. Now you're chasing it.
Contractors deal with payment differently from agencies or recurring-billing businesses. The job is done. The customer has the value. You have an invoice and a phone you keep checking. ti3.co runs a 5-week sequence in your name, sized for the way one-time-job billing actually breaks.
You finished the gutters last month. They paid the deposit, ducked the balance. They're not picking up. You can't unfix the work, and a collector would torch every word-of-mouth referral in your zip code.
What breaks the recovery, specifically.
Leverage ended the day the job did
On a recurring contract you can throttle service. On a finished job you can't un-install a roof. The customer has the value. You have a phone that doesn't ring back.
Calling them yourself feels like begging
You're the same voice on the same phone. The first call was professional. The third one isn't. By the fifth you're scripting it in your truck before you dial.
The fourth email reads desperate even to you
"Just bumping this in case it got missed." It didn't get missed. They saw it. They're ignoring it. And the more emails you send, the more your name looks like a collection address in their inbox.
A collector burns the referral chain
Most contractor revenue comes from word-of-mouth in a small geographic radius. One customer sent to a collector tells five people. The math on recovering one $4,200 invoice and losing twenty referrals isn't close.
The mechanisms that work for this kind of debt.
Persistence after the job ends
You can't keep texting from your number. ti3 can keep texting from a business identity that's yours. Five weeks of structured follow-up that you couldn't personally sustain without becoming the bad guy.
Settlement and plan paths the customer can take
"Pay $2,800 this week and we're square." "Take three monthly payments at $1,400." Most contractors don't offer these because the conversation is too awkward. The conversation isn't awkward when it's a structured option in a text message.
Mobile-first delivery
SMS reaches customers who have stopped opening email. Five weeks of weekly SMS, branded to your business, with a payment link the customer can tap from the phone they're already holding. The medium switch is what gets the message through.
Reputation-safe to your service area
No third-party collector identity. No FDCPA-style legal letterhead. The customer never sees a name they don't recognize. Your reputation in the zip code stays intact, which is the only marketing channel that matters in this business. When the gutters were paid for in cash and they're still ignoring you after week 5, send a Final Demand Notice. Most settle when the 1099 reference lands.
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Case studies in commission
We're commissioning named case studies from Contractors. While we wait, our methodology speaks for itself: a 5-week structured program built from two decades of customer software work, average resolution by week four, no collectors, no torched relationships.
Read recoveries from other industries →Risk-free 30 days. Full refund if ti3 is not the right fit.
Try the first 30 days risk-free. If ti3 is not the right fit, you get a full refund of any subscription fees paid in those 30 days, no questions asked. The 5-week recovery sequence keeps running on accounts you have already launched.
You'll get a written report on what we tried, what your debtors did, and our honest read on whether more time will help or whether your accounts genuinely aren't recoverable. No hard feelings either way. We'd rather lose a month's fee than have you feel like you wasted it.
What we hear most.
Will my customers know it's a tool, not me?
What if the customer disputes the work itself?
Will this hurt my reputation in the area?
How does it integrate with QuickBooks, Jobber, ServiceTitan, or my accounting software?
What does it cost compared to a collector?
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